After resting two nights at the hotel, Uma Serman felt a little more relaxed.
She observed Hong Kong from the perspective of a New York rich girl: the city had an acceptable urban look, fashionable pretty women, old ladies walking strangely in traditional Chinese dresses, proper English tea houses and dizzyingly varied Chinese breakfasts, suited elites and street vendors carrying bamboo baskets...
She found it very interesting.
Maybe, as her mother had said, treating it as a trip was not a bad idea.
Uma Serman took the first film of her life very seriously.
She had already memorized her lines thoroughly.
The plot of Little Sweetheart wasn’t complicated; the script from beginning to end showed a kind of boldness—a willingness to kill one's fatherly figure.
What does “patricide” mean here?
In the West the tradition of older men favoring minors (boys or girls) runs deep, sown from clergy and prototypical relationships.
Over centuries many works were born of this; most of them softened it into art, exploring human nature, social tragedy, ethics and so on...